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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the city of a thousand wells, sitting above an underground lake?
(a) Isaura.
(b) Zirma.
(c) Laura.
(d) Tamara.

2. Which city is described as having buildings with spiral staircases and with spiral seashells encrusted in the staircases?
(a) Anastasia.
(b) Isidora.
(c) Diomira.
(d) Dorothea.

3. Maurilia was once:
(a) A completely different city with the same name.
(b) Thoroughly devastated by a flood.
(c) Ruled completely by matriarchs.
(d) Completely submerged under water.

4. What does Polo see rising vertically in Armilla?
(a) Columns that hold nothing up.
(b) Pipes where the houses should be.
(c) Tall, slender windmills.
(d) Stacks of seashells.

5. Polo explains that the city Khan dreams of with the farewells from its harbor has one secret. What is it?
(a) Other cities bring their prisoners here.
(b) Its residents suffer from a rare, mysterious disease.
(c) It is a phantom city born of nymphs' imaginations.
(d) It knows about departures but not returns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Moving southward for three days from the city of Zaira, what city would one encounter?

2. The people of Valdrada know their actions are repeated:

3. What does a traveler arriving to Baucis see?

4. Polo offers two vantage points of Zemrude; one includes:

5. What creates connections between lives in Chloe?

(see the answer key)

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